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Your Philadelphia Basketball News SourceFri, 27 Mar 2015 05:49:31 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1By: joshhttp://philadunkia.com/?p=6930&cpage=1#comment-465057
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:52:48 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-465057Great post Ryan. Totally agree with everything you said. I think everyone should follow this as to how to grade this offseason and what to expect in the future. This team has gone no where or backwards again. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a top ten pick in the draft.
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Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:23:09 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-465040^^^What Ryan said. One of the best rants I’ve read on this site. Clearly someone else feels my pain. If only this off-season was a video game with a reset button. What a disaster. The Sixers won’t blow this dogpile up and they haven’t made the proper moves that will move the needle to make the team better now. In the immortal words of Andy Dufresne from “The Shawshank Redemption”, “…either get busy living, or get busy dying”.
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Mon, 23 Jul 2012 01:36:19 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-464772This off season by the Sixers was ridiculous. As a die hard Sixers fan, it almost made me cry. Nick Young for one year is okay at best because then he’ll be gone but the only reason he scores so much is cause he shoots the ball everytime it touches his hands. He’s bigger than Lou, but he’s definately not a team player. Look at him in Washington, he never played defense, just tried to bump his scoring average up to make his stats look good. I like the move to get dorell wright because he’s got good size even if he doesn’t use it to his advantage and he’s a solid role player off the bench, or as a starter if someone gets hurt. Letting lou will go was reasonable, decent scorer but too inconsistent. Jodie meeks as a starter was disturbing, good guy to come off the bench for maybe 10-15 minutes a game to shoot 3’s but thats about it. Kwame Brown? Kwame Brown as our starting center? Are you kidding me? Dudes got small hands and can’t catch a basketball. He’ll average 2.5 ppg and 3 rpg. I thought this was a joke when my friends told me. Resigning spencer hawes? Terrible! He’s slow, unathletic, can’t play D and gets a goofy look on his face whenever he fouls someone. If your looking to sign big free agents next off season why would you sign spence to two years? A starting line up of holiday, turner, iggy, hawes and brown is going to get destroyed. With the roster we have now, Id much rather see holiday, turner, iggy, thad, and moultrie. I know it wouldn’t happen cause the line up would be too small, but at least it’d be athletic. People are going to be saying thad, young, and moultrie should be starting when we start off 2-20. What the Sixers should have done if they wanted to have a good, solid season and prepare for the future goes as follows. Let williams and meeks go as they did. Let spencer hawes leave. Keep brand for another year since your paying for him anyway and your not going to sign anyone great this year anyway. Sign kaman to a one year deal, he’s 30 which isn’t too old and him and brand played together in la. Keep iggy because despite his ppg going down, i like him more now than when he was averaging 18 ppg and taking stupid shots. He’s not a star, but he’s our best all around defender and he’s very athletic. Sign oj mayo, and never glance at nick young. Laugh when you see nobody bidding on kwame brown. Do the trade for dorell wright. Starting line up of holiday, mayo, iggy, brand and kaman. moultrie, wright, thad and turner your first 4 men off the bench. Guaranteed we’d make the playoffs with that team and then if you want to go hard in free agency to build around your young players, brand and kamans contracts would be up anyway (mayos too but id keep him, he would have been a great grab.) People in philly greatly underappreciated Brand. He only played 8 games the year before we signed him, what’d you expect? He was still better then solid though. He plays good defense, has a nice jumper and in my opinion should have been a bigger part of the offense but we have too many shot happy guards who think their better than their playing reveals. I don’t want to bust people’s bubbles but our young players arn’t that great. Holiday gets shredded by star point guards, and in my opinion is a very poor man’s russell westbrook. He shoots too much when he’s off, makes too many bad passes, and doesnt play like a true point guard. Turner has eric snows jump shot and shoots way too much. Good drive but cmon man. Lavoy Allen gave us some good minutes but he’s never going to be a game changer. As much as I like thad young, he’s getting worse each year and more sloppy. Plus he doesn’t have a position, he’s a match up problem but he also can’t guard the people he’s suposed to at the 4. I think people are forgetting that free agrents have to agree to come here. What huge star is going to want to come to this team that has no proven star, no proven leader? We have a team of role players who might just keep us from being in the very bottom of the league but who will get trounced by the good teams. TERRIBLE OFFSEASON! I miss Iverson, and we never got enough talent around him either. DONE.
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Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:32:04 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-464132Not sure why most posting are happy with the Sixers off-season moves. Seriously, we’re looking at starting a front court of Iggy, Hawes and Kwame Brown. We blew our one time amnesty on Brand and used the cap space to sign Hawes, Nick Young, Ivey and Kwame Brown. We have (5) guys who play the exact same position, SF. Last offseason we bid against ourselves for a 6’8″ tweener (Thad) who didn’t receive one tender offer and over-paid once again. We all thought the Sixers were accumulating tradeable assets (i.e. guys with 1-2 years left on their deals) to make a splash in free agency this year coming off of an unexpectedly good playoff run, but the other shoe never dropped. ESPN’s own resident Insider John Hollinger concluded that clearly the Sixers entered the offseason without a plan. Again, I’m not sure how most can get behind this FO. While I don’t agree that DC is a bad coach I do agree that he is a horrible personnel guy in the mold of Larry Brown and should have ZERO input in personnel decisions, especially if he considers Kwame Brown a starter caliber center. Finally, when was the last time the Sixers made a good FA signing when they had cap space? Pardon me if I don’t get overly excited about the team positioning for a FA run in 2013 or 2014.
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Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:46:53 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-464088Listen guys calm down a bit. This offseason went about as well as can be expected. This offseason was not about the 2012-13 season but about next summer. In the NBA the players run the show ala Dwight Howard and Derron Williams, the players can hold franchises hostage and force the issue at will.
I think the front office realizes that the only way to get better and become a contender in the entice more than one FA to come here and compete. It’s not about money anymore because true star players get the same money no matter where they sign if they’re leaving their current team.
In Philly we have good young pieces to build around or include in trades for a legit star player. It’s not about the money as mush as it’s about the city. Guys wanting to go to NYC or Brooklyn why, because of the city not the team. Go to LA or Miami and you have the benefit of both the city and the team. No big FA choose Boston, KG and Ray Allen was traded there and Rondo was drafted there, together they won a title.
Philly has to be able to make the case for players that they can live in a great city with a great night life AND play with a talented core that with them onboard can compete with Miami and whomever else.
Lastly, we don’t know who the Sixers went after this offseason, we only know who they signed.OJ Mayo wanted to compete for a starting job, in Philly he knew he would not get that chance with Jrue and Evan being here so he chose a place where to could get that opportunity. I can’t blame him for that.
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Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:21:16 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-464002“Take a look at the last five NBA Champions – Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles (2X), Boston and San Antonio – and you’ll see there is a clear and established division in those franchises between the position of the head coach and that of the GM / President.”

Um, clearly you are unfamiliar with the sway that Gregg Popovich, THE BEST COACH IN THE LEAGUE, holds in terms of personnel decisions in San Antonio. Not saying that would justify Collins being in a similar position, but the aforementioned chunk of the article is simply inaccurate. (The division between head coach and president sure as hell was blurry when the heat took the title in ’06, too)

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Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:03:54 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-463959hunter like i said before we wont have trouble getting rid of cap if we need to bc 90% of our contracts that are more than 1 year are tradeable assets that other teams would want so i wouldnt worry about the cap
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Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:52:10 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-463911Miami was lacking in front court depth. If Moultrie was such a steal at #27, why would Miami instantly trade him away? Is it because Pat Riley isn’t as good at talent evaluation as rod thorn-doug collins?

Interestingly enough, I’d be willing to bet a ronnie lott sized chunk of pinkie that he would undo that trade today if he could.

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Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:09:03 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-463764i agree, oj mayo would have been a much better signing. also i don’t understand why they’ve been preaching that they will make big moves next offseason. they already have about 45 million in guaranteed contracts next season and it will probably take anywhere from 7-10 million to sign jrue. they will be unable to sign any star players with that money and will have their two main 3 point threats as FAs wright and young. i see the sixers being about just as good as last year, depending on how much the young’s develop: et, thad, jrue, allen, etc. i don’t like giving kwame and hawes 2 year deals because it would be an extra 9 or 10 mil in cap room next year, giving them enough money to sign a josh smith/al jefferson while also retaining jrue. i say you got to make a trade in january to get hawes off the books. if thad has another down year, trade him also. they got to free up space if they want to do anything next year
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Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:49:53 +0000http://philadunkia.com/?p=6930#comment-463578Whatever, you can soften the stupidity of Steve’s article as much a you want. I know you guys have to support each other. Buy you are not coMing up with solutions just more problems. I don’t want the van gundys here period. Bottomline, we played farther into the playoffs than the lakers and other big names. If you think rivers seriously outcoached collins, your crazy. No series goes 7 games with a coach serioualy out coaching . Get the hate out of you man. We came 10 of playing in the eastern conference finals. The sixers and collins did this. I have been a fixers fan since whenever. I’m 36 years old. In the past 30 years we have have barkley, then iverson, then collins. PERIOD.
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